I volunteered to help out and present a keynote at SQL Saturday #250. It worked out that they couldn't find anyone better. :-) I am really looking forward to it and hope that I do not disappoint. The time available is about 40 minutes so it can't get too technical.
Although I have been a part of 2 keynotes at the PASS Summit, I ...

I recently did a Rick Review of the Day 3 Keynote from the 2008 PASS Community Summit that featured Dr. DeWitt speaking on new technology that ended up in the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) edition of SQL Server 2008 R2. I decided to also listen again to the Day 3 Keynote from the 2001 PASS Community Summit. While I listened intently to ...

Am I stuck in the past? Not really, but I like to blog about the recordings that I have recently watched. There are a lot of recordings out there on the PASS website and other places.
Recently I have had the good fortune of exploring some of the neat technology behind the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) in SQL Server 2008 ...

While working on several other items earlier tonight, I remembered that the PASS Keynotes were on the PASS website from this past Summit. Perhaps one of the best keynotes that I had heard in sometime was by Dr. David DeWitt. This keynote was more like a classroom lecture than a marketing keynote. If you had slept in on Friday ...